[jxdxbx]

With the new Quick Capture stuff I'm all in on Apple Notes. Drafts was a bit more slick when it comes to just capturing and acting on text, sure. But all the nerd-favorite apps like Drafts and Obsidian are heavily text focused. So am I! But I also really like taking handwritten notes.

[clairity]

the thing that really soured me on apple notes is that, not only did they remove precise drawing and zoom, but they flattened all of the previously vector-based drawings i had on my ipad pro. they did this without any forewarning at all via an ordinary ios/ipados update (no popup, no release notes, nothing at all). before that, it was poised to replace all of my paper notetaking and drawing, especially with the handwriting recognition stuff coming to fruition that they promised with the debut of the original 2015 ipad pro.

[jxdxbx]

Argh, that's annoying. I personally don't know why proper outlining support is absent from, basically, every single note-taking app that is not a literal outliner (like OmniOutliner) and, with Apple Notes, why I can't take truly freeform handwritten notes as I can in OneNote. (If OneNote didn't have awful performance and reliability I might just use it.)